EVERYTHING THAT IS FREE WILL
BE UNITED WITH VIRTUE

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liberty is the coming up to a state which owns no master and is
self-regulating ; it is that with which we were gifted by God at the
beginning, but which has been obscured by the feeling of shame arising
from indebtedness. Liberty too is in all cases one and the same
essentially; it has a natural attraction to itself. It follows, then,
that as everything that is free will be united with its like, and as
virtue is a thing that has no master, that is, is free, everything
that is free will be united with virtue. But, further, the Divine
Being is the fountain of all virtue. Therefore, those who have parted
with evil will be united with Him; and so, as the Apostle says (I
Cor. 15.28), God will be "all in all "; for this utterance seems
to me plainly to confirm the opinion we have already arrived at, for
it means that God will be instead of all other things, and in all.